Per the aptosid manual, I have put my firmware drivers on a usb stick. The instructions below from the manual does not tell what directory to put them in. I am assuming the root directory unless you change the path in the terminal command, correct ? I have never done this before. Usually I hook up the computer at an ethernet connection but that is not possible this time.

non-free firmware debs on a stick

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Should you need to prefetch firmware .debs, to put on a usb-key to transfer the files to another computer, you can download them as either a zip or tar.gz file from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/unoff ... d/current/ and extract it to a folder called firmware, you should see a number of .deb files. Next download firmware-linux-free*.deb and add it to all the other debs in the folder you extracted the non-free firmware to. Then transfer them with the stick to the computer that needs the non-free firmware and:

In this case, the location of .deb file is irrelevant.
Just current directory should be where .deb files are,
(or full path of files required).
Once packages are installed with dpkg -i command, the .deb files can be deleted.

So, no need to write the position of .deb files in the manual.

BakUp

Post subject:Posted: 25.09.2010, 01:37

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muchan wrote:

after "and:" follows the codebox

not sure what this means ???

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Just current directory should be where .deb files are,
(or full path of files required)

this either ?

I removed the [solved] on this thread. I am more confused now than when I started. I think it is a interpretation or a language barrier thing. Please don't take it personally muchan.

muchan

Post subject:Posted: 25.09.2010, 08:07

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BakUp, please read again the Manual from the link above.

The paragraph you have mentioned ends with "and:"
and this pragraph is followed by a box with code to execute.
The box contains